Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969
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Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCFor most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871