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—Leonard Cohen, 1966
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The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935