History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919
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Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BC