Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985
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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921