As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986
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The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbThe transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The Bible