As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986
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Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BC