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—Maria Edgeworth, 1833
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960Just 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, 1903Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCA cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BC