Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbLord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCIt is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915