The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCCourage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCThere are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515