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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

—Barbara Walters, 1975

Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.

—Simone Weil, 1943

Fear is the foundation of most governments. 

—John Adams, 1776

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 109

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Words pay no debts.

—William Shakespeare, 1601

An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.

—George Gershwin, 1933

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

—Francis Picabia, 1949

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

—John Locke, 1695

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

—Hermann Hesse, 1950

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871