The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883
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Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCI have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889