The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856
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There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCIt is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970