The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957
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It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCSecrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCIt is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCFaith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605