Those from whom we were born have long since departed, and those with whom we grew up exist only in memory. We, too, through the approach of death, become, as it were, trees growing on the sandy bank of a river.
—Bhartrihari, c. 400
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I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928