I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCDo you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCOne’s friends are divided into two classes, those one knows because one must and those one knows because one mustn’t.
—Sybil Taylor, 1922People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580