Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
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Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.
—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951