Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962