Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983
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Happiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCI have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621