We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688
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To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnEducation is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964