Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972
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Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCTill taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964