We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848
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Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCA frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMan is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962