“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbThey are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCA friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbThe body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BC