Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897
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The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600