Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
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Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCI can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCNo poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCAgain, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWhen the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BC