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- Jean Piaget on the Adult in Every Child From The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932)
- Cormac McCarthy on Shaping the World to Our Convenience From Cities of the Plain, closing the Border Trilogy
- Mikhail Bakunin on Beethoven's Ninth On art outlasting the world.
- Pierre Corneille on the Manner of Giving On why how you give matters more than the gift.
- Anne Frank on Beauty Amid Misery On choosing the beauty that still remains.
- Friedrich Hayek on Planning and the Individual On how state planning crowds out the individual's own.
- Yagyū Munenori on Swordlessness On mastering the art of having no sword.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Complexity and Reason On why complexity demands reason over sentiment.
- Katherine Anne Porter on Beauty as Moral Duty On the moral duty to protect beauty, even one's own.
- Marguerite Yourcenar on Madness and Destiny On the touch of madness required to build a destiny.
- Edward de Bono: "Creative thinking is a skill that can be practised and nurtured" Wikiquote's Quote of the Day (May 19) from the inventor of 'lateral thinking' — creative thinking framed as a teachable skill, not a mystical gift.
- Julian of Norwich "Mercy and forgiveness leadeth us to grace" Wikiquote's Quote of the Day from Julian of Norwich, the 14th-century English anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love is the earliest surviving book in English by a woman.
- Machiavelli — "Force or fraud" Wikiquote's quote of the day, sharpened from *The Discourses*