As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverb
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Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200One’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982