The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbThe mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943