Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770
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Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC