Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930
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It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCBe courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897