Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
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For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCAs usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleIf people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCIf a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600