A false report rides post.
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918