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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

—Anaïs Nin, 1950

He laughs best who laughs last.

—French proverb

The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

—Jack London, 1912

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

—George Washington, 1796

We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC

Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.

—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

—Shimon Peres, 1995

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

—Henry Kissinger, 1972

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

—Aristophanes, 423 BC