The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878
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Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCTo call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCHistory is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Be 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, 1838