Leave me to my own absurdity.
— Sophocles
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
— William Hazlitt
Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
— Robinson Jeffers
There's only three things he mentions in a sentence a noun, a verb, and 9/11. — Joe Biden
Words take on many different meanings. — Erin McKean
Life isn't fair. — Anonymous
Nothing is more conservative than conservation — Russell Kirk
I could not hear the words, but I could hear the worry. — John Green
Before the Agricultural Revolution, the human population of the entire planet was smaller than that of today's Cairo. — Yuval Noah Harari
To have an empty head is worse than to have an empty bank account. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation. — M. Stanton Evans
