Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959
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Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995