One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCIt was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10