Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990
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Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762