There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615God 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, 1913Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThere never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77