Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012
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People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCEight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCSic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851