Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverb
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Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbUnderstanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004