Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943
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As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851