The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971
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Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbI know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCArt imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002