Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979
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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbAll men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.
—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879