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If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

—Margaret Atwood, 2005

There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.

—Laozi, c. 550 BC

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

—Denis Diderot, 1774

How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!

—Edward Young, 1741

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.

—A.J. Liebling, 1960