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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

—Malcolm X, 1964

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.

—W.H. Auden, 1946

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

—Laurie Colwin, 1978

Big head, little wit.

—French proverb

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

—John Lothrop Motley, 1858

Vox populi, vox humbug.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863

my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing

—E.E. Cummings, 1923

The gods play games with men as balls.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

—Wallace Stevens, 1952

The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

—B.F. Skinner, 1969