In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BC
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCNothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884