Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbWe need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbVery shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984