Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbEvery memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905