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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

—Anatole France, 1881

I imagined it was more difficult to die. 

—Louis XIV, 1715

To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.

—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994

Men are what their mothers made them.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

—Henry Clay, 1842

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. 

—Aldous Huxley, 1929

The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.

—Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 110

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.

—Theognis, c. 550 BC

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

—David Riesman, 1937

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972