We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015
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It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCHealth can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverbThe sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCNever greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600