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When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

—Anne Sexton, 1971

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

—Oscar Wilde, 1894

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.

—Reggie Jackson, 1976

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

—Willa Cather, 1915

What one man can invent another can discover.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992