Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbWhen night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845