It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962
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After 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, 1935He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The life of spies is to know, not be known.
—George Herbert, c. 1621I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherOne great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905