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Some men never recover from education.

—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC

Labor is no disgrace.

—Hesiod, c. 700 BC

Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

—Rumi, c. 1260

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

—Amiri Baraka, 1962

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

—Myrtle Reed, 1910

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

Seafarers 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. 1305

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

—Tennessee Williams, 1951