When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCThe most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930