What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
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Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCI know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588