When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCWithout virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCIf you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968