The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCAnything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCI'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778