The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986
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Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Destiny 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, 1899The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931