Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975
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Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWords pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherJazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871