The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010
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The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbIn large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWe die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864