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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

All of life is a foreign country.

—Jack Kerouac, 1949

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

—Confucius, c. 500 BC

When you name yourself, you always name another.

—Bertolt Brecht, 1926

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.

—Albert Einstein, 1929

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

—Frantz Fanon, 1952

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

—Samuel Johnson, 1751

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927