No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BC“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991