What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCBest is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCFreedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989