A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977It’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, 2011I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935I never know quite when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. Or my daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, Is he sick? No, my wife says, he’s writing something.
—James Thurber, 1955Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776