But 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 BC
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Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbAll the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933