Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCEvery man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933