What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850
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A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BC