The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCHappiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC