I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960
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Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953A 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, 1946All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCAs the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787