And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855
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The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780