These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908
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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerIt was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyLike a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCNothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCA monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109