Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929
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Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCHistory in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956