You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670
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I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCMusic is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625