I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCAfter all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCThe real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverb