In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878
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We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCPeople revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCYou should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCWater is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840