The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCThe only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974