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To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.

—Milan Kundera, 1978

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

—Bayard Rustin, 1986

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

—John Wilkes Booth, 1865

Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.

—Nuruddin Farah, 1992

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

—E.B. White, 1944

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

—Voltaire, 1770

The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.

—Pope Paul VI, 1965

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!

—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583