The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019
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Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbGlamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990