All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987
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Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965