It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014
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Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897