There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995
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All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917