Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972
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We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCI’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCIt is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbKeep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871