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Kings and fools know no law.

—German proverb

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

—Galileo Galilei, 1615

Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

—Mao Zedong, 1938

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

—Peter Boyle, 2002

It was lonesome, the leaving.

—Wetatonmi, c. 1877

I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.

—Euripides, 415 BC

The only equals are those who are equally rich.

—Burundian proverb

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

—John Brown, 1904

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939