Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964
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We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCThe sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCFear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCBest is water.
—Pindar, 476 BC