I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889
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Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbPeople react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720