If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCAll the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535