The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BC
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCWherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425