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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

—Lord Byron, 1812

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

—Alexander Pope, 1709

Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.

—Edith Wharton, 1905

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

—Helen Keller, 1936

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859