The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941
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Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCAn oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCOne of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCFreedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898