Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754
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It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCTelevision has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbTechnology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970