What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCLet us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCI imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911