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—Benjamin Franklin, 1735
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The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCCommerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCI am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972