Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BC