Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BC
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How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750