Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958
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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCPeople are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953