Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807
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The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCBright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCExperience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935