A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000
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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleEvery man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCIf God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688