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"It was as if they had been born to suffer and to die, and they could not imagine that they had any other purpose in life."
â The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
"If a man did not work, he did not eat; and if he did not work hard, he was turned out of his place and someone else took it."
â The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
"Chicago was not a city, it was a state of mind, an atmosphere, a spirit."
â The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
"Forskning Àr inte att veta svaren. Forskning Àr att stÀlla rÀtt frÄgor."
â Uppdrag Hail Maryby Andy Weir
"Vi Àr universums sÀtt att förstÄ sig sjÀlvt. Om vi dör, dör en del av universums medvetenhet."
â Uppdrag Hail Maryby Andy Weir
"Jag Àr en vetenskapsman. Jag gör vad som krÀvs för att överleva. Men jag gör det hellre med lite moral kvar i behÄll."
â Uppdrag Hail Maryby Andy Weir
"Ju mer jag lÀr mig om Rocky, desto mer inser jag att intelligens inte Àr en mÀnsklig egenskap, utan en universell lösning pÄ entropi."
â Uppdrag Hail Maryby Andy Weir
"Problemet med att rÀdda vÀrlden Àr att det nÀstan alltid innebÀr att man mÄste förlora allt som gör vÀrlden vÀrd att rÀdda."
â Uppdrag Hail Maryby Andy Weir
"Macbeth is not a hero who falls, but a man who is constructed by a social discourse of militarism and then destroyed by it."
â Macbeth, William Shakespeareby Alan Sinfield
"The witches are not merely supernatural agents of evil; they are the cracks in the social order that allow repressed anxieties to surface."
â Macbeth, William Shakespeareby Alan Sinfield
"Lady Macbeth's exclusion from the political sphere forces her to channel her ambition through her husband, turning domesticity into a site of subversion."
â Macbeth, William Shakespeareby Alan Sinfield
"The transition from feudal loyalty to a more modern, competitive individualism is the engine that drives Macbeth's moral collapse."
â Macbeth, William Shakespeareby Alan Sinfield
"Kingship in Macbeth is presented as a fragile construct, maintained as much by the performance of legitimacy as by the reality of power."
â Macbeth, William Shakespeareby Alan Sinfield
"The tragedy of Macbeth lies in the realization that there is no 'true' self beneath the layers of social expectation and violent ambition."
â Macbeth, William Shakespeareby Alan Sinfield
"The past is never dead. Itâs not even past. Itâs just waiting for us to come back and pick it up, like a piece of luggage we left at the station."
â Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca Wells
"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
â Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca Wells
"Honey, look at me. You have to learn how to be your own mother. You have to love yourself enough to forgive the woman who gave you life."
â Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca Wells
"We are a sisterhood of the heart, bound by the scars weâve collected and the secrets weâve protected for forty years."
â Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca Wells
"Sometimes you have to step into the swamp of your own history to find the person you were before the world told you who to be."
â Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca Wells