I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950
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He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbThe men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCNothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC