The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894