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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

—Marcel Marceau, 1958

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there. 

—Édouard Manet, c. 1860

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.

—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969

The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

—Maxim Gorky, 1913

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685

Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

The most may err as grossly as the few.

—John Dryden, 1681

He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913