To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BCIf I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCFreedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971