If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005
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There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCPatriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCHygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960