What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110
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Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbFrance has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957