Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020
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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, 1786One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCA whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Health 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, 1621The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCEvery 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, 1780Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795