Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783
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This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbThe aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNewspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972