No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCSome people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCLord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797