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—Richard Krause, 1982
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Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCWhen a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897He 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. 1600Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BC