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Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899

What touches all shall be approved by all.

—Edward I, 1295

Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!

—Marie Corelli, 1911

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

—Herodotus, c. 430 BC

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.

—Iris Murdoch, 1985

There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself. 

—Samuel Johnson, 1763

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

—Frantz Fanon, 1952

Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?

—Stanisław Lem, 1961

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

—Flannery O’Connor, 1964

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790