The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961
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It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625