When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb
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Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleThink where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCHow many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918