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Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

—Roger Ebert, 1998

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1958

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. 

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1787

Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.

—Sophocles, 440 BC

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

—Che Guevara, 1968

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward VIII, 1957

Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.

—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

—Pericles, c. 431 BC

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

—Flannery O’Connor, 1964

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

—Booth Tarkington, 1914

Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.

—Czesław Miłosz, 1960