Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943
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Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCI am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890