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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCA fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917