One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThose who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCHumiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCWhen a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960