An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC
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The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleFear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCHappiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb