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This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

—Edmund Burke, 1796

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.

—Sophocles, c. 442 BC

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

—Jane Austen, 1814

Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

—Elizabeth Charles, 1862

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

A false report rides post.

—English proverb

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387