Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbHonesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975