It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCSee one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830