Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BC
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There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbThe human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983