The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008
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Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThe more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbThere was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889