As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverb
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What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCWe should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC