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Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.

—Sappho, c. 600 BC

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

—Edward Gibbon, 1788

Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

—Simone Weil, 1947

What is life but organized energy?

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

—John Florio, 1578

Exchange is no robbery.

—German proverb

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1886

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

—George Borrow, 1843

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

—Galileo Galilei, 1615

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958

I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

—Woody Allen, 1971