Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975
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Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCHe that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCReal generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951