I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCAt the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbNot all heads have a brain.
—French proverbTo need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905