Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverb
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Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790