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He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937If 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, 1625Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988