The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856
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Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCVery shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbNo law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverb