There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012