The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953
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To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500