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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

—Amiri Baraka, 1962

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

—Mark Twain, 1893

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

—Sallust, c. 35 BC

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison, 1987

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.

—James Baldwin, 1953

Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

—D.H. Lawrence, 1920

Everyone 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, 1944

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1911

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.

—Ibn Gabirol, 1040

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950