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Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.

—Gertrude Stein, 1935

Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.

—Simone Weil, 1934

Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.

—Isocrates, c. 370 BC

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.

—Richard Brathwaite, 1631

Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.

—Christopher Morley, 1919

Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

—Peter Hitchcock, 2010

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812