It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625
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Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCIf fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922