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—David Brower, 1992
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCTrade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCLabor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987