All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC
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The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCIron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899