We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972
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France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000