The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCI wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCThere be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814