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A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

—Ralph Nader, 2000

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

—Jean Rostand, 1939

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

—Rebecca West, 1959

I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.

—Winnie Mandela, 1985

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

—Timothy Titcomb, 1859

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

—Francis Picabia, 1949

Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.

—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612

The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.

—Emily Dickinson, 1876

When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.

—Marya Mannes, 1958

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954