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My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCEducation is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878