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—Indira Gandhi, 1955
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Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbIt is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCAfter midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BC