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Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.

—George Washington, 1786

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

—Virginia Woolf, 1929

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

—Horace, c. 8 BC

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843

Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.

—Robert Burton, 1621

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

—Demosthenes, 349 BC

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

—Samuel Johnson, 1780

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795