As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986
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It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631