Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914
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I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCAs the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984