He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverb
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Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverb