Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995
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A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCDo not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverb“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “artist.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1849