Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817
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By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCHealth in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCDon’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812