Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCCasting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCI am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThe breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941