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—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCThere is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975