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“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Heart of the Matter

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (30 March 1961)
Later variant: 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.
California Gubernatorial Inauguration Speech http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/govspeech/01051967a.htm (5 January 1967)
1960s
Context: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or 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.

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“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”

David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist

As quoted in New Scientist (February 1993), p. 42

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“…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.”

Clive Barker book Galilee

Source: Galilee

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“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variant: It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

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“The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

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“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Source: Proverbs of Hell

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“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.”

Julius Evola book Revolt Against the Modern World

Source: Revolt Against the Modern World

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“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist
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“Mark my words, nothing smells worse than burned scorpion.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

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“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

Source: Wonder Boys (1995)

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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Misattributed

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“If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012), p. 91.

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“Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office

“… maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend