The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856
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Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968In 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, 1774He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962