
“Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
― The Little Engine That Could
― The Little Engine That Could

“It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.”
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
― Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“My mind wanders to the other side of the courtyard, where St. Clair waits with Josh in Q-through-Z. I wonder if I have any classes with him. I mean, them. Classes with them.”
― Anna and the French Kiss
― Anna and the French Kiss

“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.”
― Typee, Omoo, Mardi
― Typee, Omoo, Mardi

“Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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