The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400