There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995
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I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCOpposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCLanguage is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse—the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.
—Cicero, c. 44 BCI have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889