All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCWhy is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983