He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverb
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCLove is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960