When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb
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What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCAt a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCAppearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841