Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008
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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbAt a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896The 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. 1510Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747