Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThere 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, 1969Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935