Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962