No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb
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A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWhile gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984