The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952
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If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCIs this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850