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I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

—Coretta Scott King, 1994

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.

—Herodotus, c. 425 BC

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1852

Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.

—Aldo Leopold, 1933

I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”

—Michel Serres, 1982

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962

That which is evil is soon learned. 

—John Ray, 1670

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

—Latin proverb

Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.

—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC