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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCI have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCSport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952