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Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

—George Herbert, 1651

Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.

—Dragging Canoe, 1775

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

—Edmund Gosse, 1873

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

—Joseph Stalin, 1934

The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.

—Isaac Asimov, 1988

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

—Albert Camus, 1942

Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1749

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC