Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957I 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, 1957Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887