Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbFriendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963