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, 2011
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCI am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795