What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170
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Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCIt is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCTo live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000