Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BC
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCAn appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913