The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943
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To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888