What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295
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Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCWe who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850