Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978
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In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCIt is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCSociety as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870