Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887
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Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 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, 1935Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCI’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905