Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910
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The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbWater is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCEvery thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMore pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880