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All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

—Mario Puzo, 2001

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

—Shimon Peres, 1995

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.

—Izaak Walton, 1653

The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970

Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.

—James Monroe, 1808

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

—William Hazlitt, 1821