If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976
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The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BCThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942