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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773

Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

—Peter Hitchcock, 2010

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

—Mark Twain, 1893

Every house: temple, empire, school.

—Joseph Joubert, 1800

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

—Ernst Jünger, 1977

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878

In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.

—Lisa Birnbach, 1980

Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.

—David Hume, 1742