One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935