What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCBetter no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbMemories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbBefore the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972