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Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.

—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BC

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

—André Gide, 1926

I never practice, I always play.

—Wanda Landowska, 1953

Death keeps no calendar.

—George Herbert, 1640

Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.

—Dante, c. 1315

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976

Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.

—Xunzi, c. 250 BC

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.

—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962