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- The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), The World is Too Much With Us
- There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
- Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855), from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1
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