A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCThe noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950