The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCIt is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991