Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882
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No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC