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—Andy Warhol, 1975
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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865